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Which licence applies to Netflix Open Content titles in AV1/, av2ctc/ and IMF/, and does it match what the Open Content page says?

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Netflix's Open Content page says its open source content is available under CC BY 4.0, but the per-title licence files for the Chimera AV1 encodes (Sept 2019) and the Meridian IMP/VDM/Atmos assets (Nov 2016) license those sequences under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, and the AV1 readme says each asset's licence is in its own license.txt; the TechblogAssets Sparks licence file referenced by the README returns 404. Curator qualifications: Conflict preserved: page-level CC BY 4.0 vs title-level CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; the texts do not state precedence. Use the more restrictive title licence for those titles. Sparks/Experimental AV1 licence files and av2ctc/IMF listings (E3, E4, E6, E7) not reinspected. Text only; no media downloaded. Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary. Limitations: Live bucket and page. [component_reuse_restriction] Treat Chimera and Meridian as non-commercial, no-derivatives; no derived fixtures from them. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/AV1/creative-commons-attribution-4-intl-public-license.txt",
      "note": "opencontent.netflix.com intro (fetched 2026-10-22); AV1/Chimera/license.txt; TechblogAssets/Meridian/meridian_license.txt; AV1/readme.txt; TechblogAssets/Sparks/sparks_license.txt"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/?delimiter=/&prefix=av2ctc/",
      "note": "opencontent.netflix.com intro (fetched 2026-10-22); AV1/Chimera/license.txt; TechblogAssets/Meridian/meridian_license.txt; AV1/readme.txt; TechblogAssets/Sparks/sparks_license.txt"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/?delimiter=/&prefix=IMF/",
      "note": "opencontent.netflix.com intro (fetched 2026-10-22); AV1/Chimera/license.txt; TechblogAssets/Meridian/meridian_license.txt; AV1/readme.txt; TechblogAssets/Sparks/sparks_license.txt"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/TechblogAssets/Meridian/meridian_license.txt",
      "note": "opencontent.netflix.com intro (fetched 2026-10-22); AV1/Chimera/license.txt; TechblogAssets/Meridian/meridian_license.txt; AV1/readme.txt; TechblogAssets/Sparks/sparks_license.txt"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/TechblogAssets/README.txt",
      "note": "opencontent.netflix.com intro (fetched 2026-10-22); AV1/Chimera/license.txt; TechblogAssets/Meridian/meridian_license.txt; AV1/readme.txt; TechblogAssets/Sparks/sparks_license.txt"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://opencontent.netflix.com/",
      "note": "opencontent.netflix.com intro (fetched 2026-10-22); AV1/Chimera/license.txt; TechblogAssets/Meridian/meridian_license.txt; AV1/readme.txt; TechblogAssets/Sparks/sparks_license.txt"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/AV1/readme.txt",
      "note": "opencontent.netflix.com intro (fetched 2026-10-22); AV1/Chimera/license.txt; TechblogAssets/Meridian/meridian_license.txt; AV1/readme.txt; TechblogAssets/Sparks/sparks_license.txt"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/AV1/Chimera/license.txt",
      "note": "opencontent.netflix.com intro (fetched 2026-10-22); AV1/Chimera/license.txt; TechblogAssets/Meridian/meridian_license.txt; AV1/readme.txt; TechblogAssets/Sparks/sparks_license.txt"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/AV1/Sparks/license.txt",
      "note": "opencontent.netflix.com intro (fetched 2026-10-22); AV1/Chimera/license.txt; TechblogAssets/Meridian/meridian_license.txt; AV1/readme.txt; TechblogAssets/Sparks/sparks_license.txt"
    },
    {
      "url": "http://download.opencontent.netflix.com.s3.amazonaws.com/AV1/Experimental/license.txt",
      "note": "opencontent.netflix.com intro (fetched 2026-10-22); AV1/Chimera/license.txt; TechblogAssets/Meridian/meridian_license.txt; AV1/readme.txt; TechblogAssets/Sparks/sparks_license.txt"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Netflix's Open Content page says its open source content is available under CC BY 4.0, but the per-title licence files for the Chimera AV1 encodes (Sept 2019) and the Meridian IMP/VDM/Atmos assets (Nov 2016) license those sequences under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, and the AV1 readme says each asset's licence is in its own license.txt; the TechblogAssets Sparks licence file referenced by the README returns 404. · locator: opencontent.netflix.com intro (fetched 2026-10-22); AV1/Chimera/license.txt; TechblogAssets/Meridian/meridian_license.txt; AV1/readme.txt; TechblogAssets/Sparks/sparks_license.txt source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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